What is going on? (Content scraped in another language)
This is the first time I've seen this happen..
I was looking at my web stats as I do on a regular basis, checking out the referrers and keywords that were giving me traffic.
I saw one referrer that looked odd..{{Link removed due to adult content}} it turns out that it is a complete copy of my site in a different language.
My site is:
and the scraper site is:
{{Link removed due to offensive content}}
Obviously this is blatant copyright and content theft, the domain WHOIS is filled in with false info and I have no way of contacting the owner of the website.
How do I get them taken down please? Anyone? Kind of desperate here as they are going to steal all my rankings if I don't get this thieves sorted soon
Megan posted this at 13:19 — 4th July 2008.
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Hi Adcuz,
I had to remove that link because of the photos that were posted on there. NSFW!!!
So is it just the design that's scraped or is it the content too? I'm guessing not if they had that kind of an image on there. Yikes.
They won't steal your rankings if it's in another language. I find it hard to believe that that would happen. Even if it was in English it would only be a problem if their site was outranking yours.
SEOmoz has a lawyer on staff and she has written some posts on this topic. Check her profile here - I can't find the post I'm thinking of right now but hopefully this is still helpful.
Megan
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MrCat posted this at 16:33 — 4th July 2008.
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You can also opt to email the hosting provider of the copycat site. They could either suspend it or get in touch with the webmaster.
decibel.places posted this at 15:45 — 5th July 2008.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
yeah, and a big fat lawsuit....
Adcuz posted this at 18:23 — 6th July 2008.
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Hi Guys and Gals.
Sorry about the other link, I did an htaccess goatse on the copied site in an attempt to let out my frustrations.
I forgot I had posted it here..
Thanks for the advice, I've blocked any requests from the translate.ru services now as that is what they were using to steal the content. No doubt they'll find some other translator to use.
The content is all mine they have taken. Terrible really as I don't know what to do now. I can't track down their host as they are using domain registration services so they keep their ID sealed.
How can I find out the hosting provider of the website? I'm pretty sure the fact they are showing that image is enough to get them thrown off the service. Lets hope.
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 01:16 — 7th July 2008.
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Do a WhoIs lookup on the domain name and use the name servers to figure out who is hosting the site.
Oh...so they are linking to your images. Yeah, I would change them to something less shocking, no sense in shocking that site's visitors when they did nothing wrong.
Adcuz posted this at 21:32 — 7th July 2008.
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It's gone!
They obviously got the message
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